The speedskater who received death threats after the 2014 Winter Olympics just crashed out of another final

Elise Christie crashed out of the short track 500-meter short-track speedskating final on Tuesday.
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On Tuesday, the British speedskater Elise Christie crashed out of the 500-meter short-track speedskating final for the second Winter Olympics in a row.

She has said she got death threats and had to shut down her Twitter account after people accused her of causing a South Korean athlete to wipe out when she fell at the 2014 Games.

But Christie has two more chances to medal at this year's Olympics.

History just repeated itself for one of Great Britain's athletes at the Winter Olympics.

Elise Christie crashed out of the 500-meter short-track speedskating event on Tuesday, four years after a similar tumble at the Sochi Olympics.

Christie cruised through the women's 500-meter quarterfinal and semifinal stages at the Gangneung Ice Arena in South Korea. But during a fiercely competitive final, she was thrown off balance by Yara van Kerkhof, her Dutch rival.

"I was knocked over," Christie said in a tearful interview with the BBC after the race. "I can't see living with this feeling."

Christie was tearful in an interview with the BBC.
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At the Sochi Games in 2014, she hit the deck. She says she then received death threats from people accusing her of taking out a South Korean athlete as she fell, leading her to close her Twitter account.

"The Korean girl was taken out, and I then received a lot of death threats and online abuse from South Koreans," Christie recently told the BBC.